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Fighting food waste, one banana skin at a time
Growing up, Max La Manna, like every child, needed encouragement to clear his plate. “My mother would always say make sure you eat your food – there are starving people on the other side of the world.” Now, with a cost-of-living crisis pushing more families into poverty, La Manna knows that hunger is no longer an abstract, distant notion.
“There are millions of children across the country right now who are struggling to get meals,” he says. “It’s happening all around
